Progress

It was a... normal week, I guess? Which is refreshing after all the interrupted weeks before.

Articles

• Why Blog If Nobody Reads It? -- Andy's Blog
• Don't be Frupid :: Selena Anderson
• ewintr.nl - building a personal, private ai computer on a budget
• The Universe of Discourse : Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more
• BLUEJEWELED by brandonhare
• Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture -- Quanta Magazine
• Explainable Linear Programs ---- Math ∩ Programming
• 7 Common Mistakes in Architecture Diagrams -- Ilograph Blog
• Making Software Fun • furbo.org
• How Copyover MUD Servers Worked -- Blog -- jackkelly.name
• Fruit Of The Poisonous LLaMA? – Terence Eden’s Blog
• How about trailing commas in SQL? -- Peter Eisentraut
• PassMark sees the first yearly drop in average CPU performance in its 20 years of benchmark results -- Tom's Hardware
• The Butter Thesis
• I Tasted Honda's Spicy Rodent-Repelling Tape - by Liz Cook
• The Subtle Art of Designing Physical Controls for Cars
• Gulf of Mexico: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia
• git - Pushing to Github after a shallow clone is horribly slow - Stack Overflow
• IEDM 2025 – TSMC 2nm Process Disclosure – How Does it... - SemiWiki
• We Replaced Our React Frontend with Go and WebAssembly - Dagger
• Bad Smart Watch Auth
• Global game jam recap – Gravity Jane
• you don't link all of libc
• Are Efficiency and Horizontal Scalability at odds? • Buttondown
• Rendering form fields as group in Django
• I’m obsessed with icebreaking: I was trained not to hit anything – now I drive my ship into ice 24/7 -- Ice -- The Guardian
• AAA - Analytical Anti-Aliasing
• LLMs Do Not Break Interviews
• Anno 1800: Shadows of Beauty -- Simonschreibt.
• Patterns for building realtime features - /dev/knill
• Add Stripe subscriptions to Django in 7 minutes 💵 - Tom Dekan
• IEEE Archive: The Origins of 60-Hz as a Power Frequency
• Better unit-tests for your emails with Django 5.2 -- by Ronny Vedrilla -- ambient-digital -- Feb, 2025 -- Medium (via Jochens weeklog)
• BlueTeamSherpa :verified:: "The best, most cogent and eleg…" - Infosec Exchange (via Jochens weeklog)
• FOSDEM 2025 - MapTCHA, the open source CAPTCHA that improves OpenStreetMap: I like the idea, but the implementation seems quite janky.
• JesseSort: a fast new sorting algorithm
• SQL Noir - A Detective SQL Game
• Lost in Love for Romeo and Juliet: automatically generated cards with a maze
• Introducing Privacy Pass authentication for Kagi Search -- Kagi Blog
• technomancy: what if search were better?
• Scene setup for art direction
• How to add an object in Django Admin with a bookmarklet (Phil Gyford’s website)
• What if Eye...?
• Do Lake Names Reflect Their Properties? -- Ivan Ludvig’s Blog
• How I built an AI company to save my open source project -- Timefold
• Apple app tracking rules more strict for others – watchdog • The Register
• Terence Tao: "The behavior of a high-dimensi…" - Mathstodon
• Does X cause Y? An in-depth evidence review
• Four points on the debate over the impact of the Mariel boatlift - David Roodman
• Phil Birnbaum's "bad regression" puzzles
• Sabermetric Research: Do younger brothers steal more bases than older brothers?
• Sabermetric Research: Do younger brothers steal more bases than older brothers? Part III
• 3D BOATY by Depep1 -- Download free STL model -- Printables.com: the Benchy is a boat, so of course, the Boaty is a bench
• Trans-Europe-Planner: very neat visualization/planning system for rail trips; unfortunately not a lot of stations possible right now
• The Largest Sofa You Can Move Around a Corner -- Quanta Magazine
• We Were Wrong About GPUs · The Fly Blog
• How Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal - Ars Technica
• Did Semgrep Just Get A Lot More Interesting? · The Fly Blog
• Watt The Fox?
• TeX and Typst: Layout Models -- Laurenz's Blog
• The Gemini protocol seen by this HTTP client person -- daniel.haxx.se
• Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage -- Reuters
• Dinner At A North Korean Restaurant In Shanghai! – Simply Fabulicious
• This Is Where Asteroid 2024 YR4 Could Strike: "the asteroid should fall somewhere in a band of territory stretching from northern South America, across the Pacific Ocean, to southern Asia, the Arabian Sea, and Africa. Countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Sudan, Nigeria, Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador would be at risk." phew!
• The Resilience of Alien Chess
• You’re probably using the wrong dictionary « the jsomers.net blog
• calculator-app - Chad Nauseam Home
• United States Power Outage Map

Libraries, programming, etc

• GitHub - scottbez1/smartknob: Haptic input knob with software-defined endstops and virtual detents
• hanshuaikang/Nping: 🏎 Nping mean NB Ping, A Ping Tool in Rust with Real-Time Data and Visualizations
• Goldziher/kreuzberg: A text extraction library supporting PDFs, images, office documents and more
• GitHub - dvershinin/gixy: NGINX configuration static analyzer
• Introduction -- OCR4all
• GitHub - elasticdotventures/awesome-openscad: A collection of awesome OpenSCAD projects

Books

• Snowglobe by Soyoung Park: I am really ambivalent on this book. It's a mixture between far-out sci-fi and TV-first soap opera. Also, very korean!

Games

• Mars First Logistics
• shapez 2: pure factory crack!
• Jedi Survivor

Board games

• Nunatak
• Wizard
• Glüx

Other media

• The Longest Railroad Crossing in Japan (For Now) - YouTube
• Attempting the Longest Slide in Tokyo - YouTube
• Runs while making train noises! Introduction & Explanation of Home-built VVVF equipped carts - YouTube
• Why Electric Trains Make Interesting Sounds. I Made a Singing Train Motor! - YouTube
• More on Bertrand's Paradox (with 3blue1brown) - Numberphile - YouTube
• Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000
• Glider dropped from helicopter - with FPV drone views -- Antidotum Airshow 2024 - YouTube
• Robbie Williams - Rock DJ (Regent Street) -- Better Man -- Official Movie Scene - YouTube: what a shot!
• Better Man -- Directing the Scene: Regent Street (2024 Movie) – Michael Gracey, Robbie Williams - YouTube
• Guinnes Record sheep to jumper - YouTube
• Add Stripe subscriptions to Django in 7 mins 💵 - YouTube
• Everyone's WRONG about the BENCHY BAN! (Printables #3DBenchy takedowns explained) - YouTube
• The True Costs of Being on YouTube - by carla lalli music
• It’s a knowledge problem! Or is it? - by Jos Visser